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ReviewJournal of gastrointestinal cancer2011

Postsurgery activation of dormant liver micrometastasis: a case report and review of literature.

Bert Deylgat, Frank Van Rooy, Franky Vansteenkiste, Dirk Devriendt, Christophe George

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Review in Journal of gastrointestinal cancer, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Bert DeylgatDepartment of General and Digestive Surgery, AZ Groeninge, Kortrijk, Belgium. bert.deylgat@hotmail.com
Frank Van Rooy
Franky Vansteenkiste
Dirk Devriendt
Christophe George

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundWe present the case of a 55-year-old woman who underwent a Whipple procedure for pancreatic adenocarcinoma. The preoperative work-up showed no signs of liver metastasis and confirmed the patient's operability, but at less than 40 days postoperatively there were diffuse liver metastasis present on CT. This rapid evolution raises the question whether current staging systems are adequate in determining a patient's operability. It also suggests an interaction between the primary tumor and the host and the existence of disseminated tumor cells. DISCUSSION: In this article, we give an explanation for the clinical evolution presented in our case using the "integrated organ" and the "concomitant resistance" hypotheses. We believe that, if these theories continue to prove their viability, the search for disseminated tumor cells will be essential for good clinical practice in this type of pathology.

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Postoperative ComplicationsAdenocarcinomaFemaleHumansLiver NeoplasmsMiddle AgedPancreatic NeoplasmsTomography, X-Ray ComputedTreatment Outcome

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